Returning lambda's from a ternary in C#

In the midst of some mad refactoring I came across something similar to the following snippet:

 1 if (count == 0)
 2   choice.Finish = result => { return; };
 3 else
 4   choice.Finish = result => { letter.MailMerge(result); };

Looked like a decent candidate for refactoring with a ternary / conditional operator:

 7 choice.Finish = (count == 0) ? result => { return; }
 8                              : result => { letter.MailMerge(result); };

Type of conditional expression cannot be determined because there is no implicit conversion between 'lambda expression' and 'lambda expression'

Hold your horses, say what?

For some reason the only way to fool it through the compiler is to cast one of the expressions (it doesn't seem to matter which one) to the expected return type.

11 choice.Finish = (count == 0) ? (TypeDelegate<int>) (result => { return; })
12                              : result => { letter.MailMerge(result); };

Go figure!

VIM on OpenVMS

This is a note to future Dan and anyone else that may have file permission problems when running VIM on OpenVMS.

Define this logical:

Dan$ define DECC$ACL_ACCESS_CHECK ENABLE

Apparently when disabled the access function only checks the UIC protection and not the OpenVMS ACL's.

There are all other kinds of goodies here